Adam schieffer



(No Model.)

A. SCHIEFFER. SUSPENDERS.

No. 423,958. Patented Mar. 25, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()Fr cE. V

ADAM SOHIEFFER, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,958, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed May 25, 1889.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADAM SOHIEFFER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspenders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to suspenders, and has for its object to provide suspenders of a simple and durable construction capable of being worn with great comfort, and wherein the elastic portion of the suspenders will not be injured by contact with the body of the wearer.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of several parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of apair of suspenders embodying my improvement, one shell or sleeve being in section. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the rear shell or sleeve, illustrating the manner of crossing the members of the suspenders and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the rear shell detached with portions of the same broken away.

The forward ends of the straps or members 10 and 11 of the suspenders are carried through a suitable link 12 and made to slide upon themselves in any suitable or approved manner. The link 12 is connected with a bar 13, the ends of which are preferably inwardly bent, as illustrated to the left in Fig. 1,the connection being effected by a flexible band 14, preferably formed of rubber, the said band being ordinarily cut away at the center of the lower portion, as shown at 15 in Fig. 1, to fall at each side of a pulley-block 16,which block is attached to the central portion of the bar 13,

the forward suspender-ends 17, which may be made in the usual manner, being adapted to pass over the pulley in the said block.

In order to prevent the rubber connection 14 from becoming injured by contact with the body of the wearer of the suspenders, the shell or sleeve 18 is made to slide upon the forward ends of the straps or members 10 and 11, the said shell being open at the top and bottom and of sufficient width to conveniently slide Serial No. 312,091T (No model.)

over the link 12 and bar 13, also of sufficient length to cover the pulley and theelastic section or connection 14, as illustrated in Fig. 1. This shell or sleeve maybe and is preferably made of leather, or card-board covered with leather, and is rectangular in cross-section, having flat side faces.

If in practice it is found desirable, a pin provided with a button 19 at one end and threaded at the other end may be passed through the sleeve and through an eye in the pulley to retain the former in position, the pin being held in place in any approved man ner, usually by screwing a head upon the under side.

Near the rear end of each of the straps or members 10 and 11 of the suspenders, a proper distance from said ends, each strap is made in two sections B and B, each section being provided with an attached link 20, and the links of each section are connected by an elastic band 21, as shown in Fig. 2, which band is preferably made of like material with the front connecting-band 1a. The two lower links of each of the straps or members 10 and 11 are connected together so that one strap can cross the otherin the usual manner, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and yet not be entirely separated, as shown. The links are connected as in a chain; but the connection may be otherwise made. This cross-connection at the rear of the suspenders is covered by a shell or sleeve 22. (Illustrated in detail in Fig. 3 and in section in Fig. 2.) The side faces of this shell 22 are fiat, and the ends are beveled from a central point in. opposite directions, as shown at 23 and 24:.

There is no central division in the shell or sleeve; but each of the cross straps or members of the suspenders are retained in proper position within the shell by producing upon its inner surface at its ends lugs or projections 25. These lugs are so arranged that, for instance, the lug at one inclined upper surface is formed upon the inner wall, and a similar lug is formed upon the outer wall of the other inclined surface at the same end. At the lower end a lug diagonally opposite to that formed upon the outer wall at the upper end is produced upon the lower wall. This construction is fully illustrated in Fig. 3, in which it will be observed that each diagonally-oppo- ICO site lug is formed upon opposite walls. Thus when the straps pass through this shell or sleeve 22 they are effectually held in their proper crossed position.

l laving thus described my invention, I clann as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the Webbing or strap 10, having its front end looped, of a link 12 on said looped end, the elastic band 14 on said link and having a cross-bar 13 at its lower end, the pulley suspended from said bar, the slide 18, and the pin 19, passing through the slide and pulley, substantially as set forth.

2. In suspenders, the slide 22, widened at its ends and provided with diagonal passages through it, oppositely-inclined ends 23 24, and the lugs or projections 25 on the inner walls of the passages, substantially as set forth.

3. In suspenders, the combination,with the straps thereof divided in the back at the crossin g and connected by elastic bands, of a sleeve or shell adapted to slide over such connection, the said sleeve or shell being provided with diagonally-opposite lugs formed upon the inner faces of opposite walls, substantially as shown and described, whereby the straps when crossed will be held in such position.

4. In suspenders, the combination, with the straps thereof divided at the back at the crossing, each section provided with a link, the lower link of each of said sections being connected, and elastic bands connecting the links of each strap, of a sleeve held to slide upon the straps to cover the elastic connection, all combined for operation substantially as and for the purpose specified.

ADAM SCI-IIEFFER.

\Vitnesses:

J. F. ACKER, J12, O. SEDGWICK. 

